Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist, and the consolation of
the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the ... Alexander Pope: “Anexpert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.” Oscar Wilde: ...

Roosevelt, Eleanor Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind. -
Unknown, Source An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of aconversation. - Unknown, Source Rumor grows as it goes. - Virgil Show me
someone who ...

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation. - Unknown,
Source Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing
at your own joke. - Unknown, Source Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

Gossip Gossip It is always difficult to sling mud with clean hands. Much ... Gossip
always seems to travel fastest over grapevines that are slightly sour. Gossip is ...
The expert gossiper knows just how much to leave out of a conversation. Gossip
...

A TWO-WAY STREET Think of a conversation as a small relationship, with its
ebbs and flows, and giving and taking. One-sided ... This is risky. It is best to leave gossip, sarcasm, and complaining in general out of business conversation.
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An Etiquette Expert on the World's Most Irritating Habits and What to Do About
Them Cynthia Lett. First, calm down. There are just going to be some people in
the world who feel they know it all and think everyone else wants to know itas
well. These people ... If this doesn't stop the gossip, leave the conversation. “The
most ...

Expert Advice from the British Association of Gossipmongers Nicole Banerji.
TYPE 2 - Not that ... TYPE 3 - Actually could you drop this into the conversation as
I'd be really interested to know how X, Y or Z reacts. In fact in ... This is the start of
your gossip partnership. Like all ... Although it would be tacky to keep a record of
exactly how much tittle-tattle each partner brings to the table, just keep an. 34
HOW ...

Early humans, in their characteristic large groups of 150 or so, would have had to spend almost half their time in mutual grooming. Instead, Professor Robin Dunbar argues, they evolved a more efficient mechanism: language.

Low an important man like Senator Hoyt heard of him, Cecil Hirsch didn't know.
But he wasn't asking too many questions. ... as a kid hustling tourists in New York
City, passing himself off as an expert on local history and gossip and architecture.
... the most likely marks by studying their faces for a few minutes, or listening in on conversations between husband and wife. ... keep them entertained for hours, leaving them thinking themselves experts in most of what anyone needed to know ...

The woman Caron, of whom we have heard in preceding chapters, was a most expert Careuse. ... The baker's wife, feeling that her load was so much lighter,
found that she was robbed, and was going to have the Duchess ... of a rich farmer
,) they went to church, and endeavoured to draw into conversation the letter-out
of chairs or the candle-lighter. They know that these inferior persons like to gossip.